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union lawsuit over federal employees working without pay seeks to

The complaint asks federal judge to block White House's most guidance for operations during the partial shutdown, like processing tax returns and refunding taxpayers, that Vice President Mike Pence said on Monday were aimed at diminishing the pain of the partial shutdown for nonfederal workers... ..

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texas county republicans reject outing muslim-american vice

Shafi is one of two party vice chairmen and has worked for the party for about 10 years, including as a delegate to the state party convention. He's serving a two-year term as vice chairman and his election in July drew one lone dissenting vote among the approximately 250 precinct chairmen..

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